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Third time lucky for Forsten's pigeon; taeniura, forsterii, forsteni
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2024-03-04
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2023-07-19
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Temminck’s major work on pigeons became famous partly because of the complementary plates by Knip, even though Knip had used subterfuge to make the published work appear to be hers. It was generally assumed that this permanently ended their partnership as the evidence for renewed cooperation between the two, present in Knip’s second pigeon book, was widely overlooked. A rediscovered letter from Temminck to Knip confirms the renewed partnership, with Temminck supplying specimens of new species of pigeon to be included in Knip’s work. One of these was a Ducula from Sulawesi, collected by the Dutch
naturalist Forsten. Due to a spelling mistake, this species initially did not receive the name intended by Temminck. Although the error was subsequently corrected by Bonaparte, his action is invalid in the eyes of the International code for zoological
nomenclature. Another article in the Code, however, dealing with a different matter, is applicable and rules that the ‘amended’ name is valid after all.
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Hein van Grouw, Wim Dekkers, and Kees Rookmaaker "Third time lucky for Forsten's pigeon; taeniura, forsterii, forsteni," Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 144(1), 29-38, (4 March 2024). https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v144i1.2024.a4
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Copyright © 2024 The Authors; This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of the article.
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